Todd Howard to Fallout 76 fans: "Impressed you're still here"

Todd Howard had a few things to say about the last year at Bethesda Games Studio, and it has fans reacting to his snark.

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The Bethesda E3 2019 Showcase is wrapped up, but some fans are talking about Todd Howard's brief appearance on stage. "We have had an incredibly exciting year at Bethesda Games Studios. Given some of that excitement, impressed you're still here." This was clearly directed to Fallout fans who did not have the best reception to Fallout 76's release last year. Please take a look.

Howard had already let Bethesda fans know that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 would be skipping E3 2019. Bethesda Games Studios did have a whole gang of announcements for TESL fans, though as the company revealed The Elder Scrolls Online Dragonhold expansion. The fourth chapter of the Season of the Dragon brings fire-breathing dragons and all that good stuff. That wasn't all for TESL fans as the mobile game Blades is heading to Nintendo Switch this fall. Fallout 76 players did get some news in the form of a new Wastelanders DLC and a Nuclear Winter battle royale mode coming later this year. 

Fallout 76 is getting a battle royale mode.
Fallout 76 is getting a battle royale mode.

Howard boasted that Bethesda Games Studios has over 60 million players across their intellectual properties, which is a company record. He went on to say that Fallout 76 had a lot of difficulties at launch and "we got a lot of very well-deserved criticism." He continued, "We made a post-apocaltypic survival game where you can do whatever you want and everybody's nice to each other. They don't go on killing/griefing sprees. They leave food and water for the newbies and wave to each other. I don't know about you, this should give us all hope for humanity when the apocalypse does come."

Seems like old Todd has been able to look on the bright side of things surrounding Fallout 76 development, as he praised his community of players. He is clearly "impressed" by the loyalty of Fallout fans, even if some of them aren't super jazzed about how Fallout 76 turned out.

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    June 9, 2019 8:24 PM

    Asif Khan posted a new article, Todd Howard to Fallout 76 fans: "Impressed your still here"

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      June 9, 2019 9:29 PM

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        June 10, 2019 9:43 AM

        I'm starting to think they do that on purpose to fuck with us.

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      June 9, 2019 9:31 PM

      Sucks when a Todd dunks on you

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      June 9, 2019 10:21 PM

      *you’re

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      June 10, 2019 4:04 AM

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      June 10, 2019 5:28 AM

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        June 10, 2019 5:38 AM

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        June 10, 2019 6:11 AM

        dognose told them to never apologize.

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        June 10, 2019 6:23 AM

        I can’t imagine how many meetings with consultants, marketing and brand managers they had to write and craft that bit to acknowledge the issue but not draw too much attention to it.

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        June 10, 2019 7:10 AM

        Not sure what he needs to apologize for. "Sorry it became a meme on the internet to shit on our game"

        I personally don't think developers should be required to apologize to you if you didn't like their game.

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          June 10, 2019 7:15 AM

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            June 10, 2019 7:21 AM

            With modern consoles and stuff like shadowplay it's very easy to make glitch/bug compilations for pretty much any game. Fallout 76 was definitely glitchy at release but they fixed a ton of the bugs really soon after release and the game was definitely playable. I only had one crash to desktop in about 40 hours of gameplay.

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            June 10, 2019 7:29 AM

            The game was released with bugs, but it was definitely not "borderline unplayable." You gotta stop watching YouTubers IMO.

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            June 10, 2019 7:32 AM

            It was not "borderline unplayable".

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            June 10, 2019 8:27 AM

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              June 10, 2019 8:29 AM

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                June 10, 2019 8:42 AM

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                June 10, 2019 8:44 AM

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                June 10, 2019 10:32 AM

                Dude, it's pretty clear you're just riding the Internet hate train. The game definitely had more than it's fair share of problems, but it was never "borderline unplayable", and it has improved dramatically since launch.

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                June 10, 2019 10:42 AM

                Those seem like really minor issues?

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                June 10, 2019 11:26 AM

                Ah so you didn't play the game. Maybe stop talking about it then.

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                  June 10, 2019 11:26 AM

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                    June 10, 2019 11:34 AM

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                    June 10, 2019 11:45 AM

                    Yeah, maybe really play the game instead of getting your info from some youtubers who will hapily jump on any currently hip hatetrain if it gives them views. I have played for many hours and encountered no major bugs, had connection issues maybe ones, and generally had fun, just like many other people who like the game. Sure there is some jank here and there, like in every other Bethesda game, but you having such a beef with a game you know not much about is really strange.

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                      June 10, 2019 11:52 AM

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                        June 10, 2019 12:18 PM

                        Internet reaction to Fallout 76 was greaty, greatly exaggerated. Marketing fuck ups like with the bags didn't help but I don't see why Todd should apologize for anythong on E3 stage. It is his right to release a dud from time to time, it's normal. And this dud found its audience anyway.
                        The game was not broken or incomplete on release, it was just mediocre and disappointing. Stop watching this garbage from entitled "influencers".

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          June 10, 2019 7:50 AM

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          June 10, 2019 8:13 AM

          If you knowingly ship a shit product people are handing over money for, yeah, I could deal with an apology.

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          June 10, 2019 8:45 AM

          Fallout 76 was awful. I bought it. Tommy was super excited about it, so I preordered so he could get in the betas, which were super limited. Tommy had enough of the game before the betas were even over.

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            June 10, 2019 9:11 AM

            That sucks and everybody is entitled to their opinion of the game, I just think it's silly to expect an apology to the point to saying it's "messed up" that he didn't apologize. Not to mention the fact that they were very transparent about features (or lack thereof) and how the game was going to play for months before the game released, and at release people still acted surprised about things they would have known about had they done their due diligence in finding out information about the game before purchasing it.

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              June 10, 2019 9:25 AM

              I'm not gonna say it's messed up he didn't apologize, but after Fallout 4 and 76 none of their games are bought sight-unseen by me anymore.

              They're going to have to earn that sale now.

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            June 10, 2019 11:40 AM

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        June 10, 2019 7:37 AM

        Dude didn't come to my house to grovel, either. Such a slap in the face.

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        June 10, 2019 11:25 AM

        Sorry for what? Are you serious?

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      June 10, 2019 5:30 AM

      misspelled "you're" in both the headline AND article.

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      June 10, 2019 5:39 AM

      u're

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      June 10, 2019 7:20 AM

      there*

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      June 10, 2019 8:15 AM

      Jim Sterling is on fire today:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdOSTAda1w

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        June 10, 2019 8:40 AM

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        June 10, 2019 9:02 AM

        you think that is on fire? I think that is the worst kind of fan and one of the negatives the internet has created. that was horrible and his take was just dickish.

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        June 10, 2019 9:11 AM

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        June 10, 2019 10:14 AM

        im conflicted between which i like less, bethesda or this douche.

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        June 10, 2019 10:43 AM

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        June 10, 2019 11:09 AM

        He is very bad and you should feel bad for listening to him.

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        June 10, 2019 11:22 AM

        Yeah he's only good at sounding pretentious telling us stuff we already knew. He basically a guy who mansplains to men.

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          June 10, 2019 11:32 AM

          I wonder how he feels about cargo shorts?

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          June 10, 2019 1:58 PM

          I want to mansplain diet and exercise and clothing selection and not having an annoying whiny voice to him.

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        June 10, 2019 11:47 AM

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        June 10, 2019 12:22 PM

        This guy really devolved into the worst kind of entitled youtuber. I guess he was a reputable game critic once? What a dive.

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        June 10, 2019 12:58 PM

        Jim is great, but he has been beating this dead horse for awhile now. I like him even more knowing how much people here hate him though.

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      June 10, 2019 9:36 AM

      I thought the Nuclear Winter battle royale mode was out like today

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        June 10, 2019 10:27 AM

        I think it was added with today's update, yes.

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      June 10, 2019 10:54 AM

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      June 10, 2019 10:57 AM

      No lie here. FO76 with NPCs and quests would make buy the game. There's been enough time since FO4 for me that I'm hungry for Fallout again. Looking forward to trying the free week tonight. Though not sure what I'd actually do if the NPCs aren't patched in yet.

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        June 10, 2019 11:49 AM

        There's still a lot of quests, you just get them from logs or robots or notes. Not that much of a difference, although I'm happy they bring NPCs in.

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